OREANDA-NEWS  The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions against 18 Russian oil tankers and four tankers for the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the British Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on Thursday on the government's website.

"New sanctions have been imposed against 18 Russian oil tankers and four tankers for the transportation of liquefied natural gas," it said.

According to the British authorities, this is the largest sanctions package against Russian tankers.

"Along with measures against the shadow fleet, the United Kingdom is imposing sanctions against ... the Russian gas company JSC Rusgazdobycha," the ministry said in a statement on its website.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly stressed that unilateral anti-Russian measures by Western countries and their allies are unacceptable and illegal, noting that they were introduced bypassing the UN mechanisms.

The Russian Federation has also repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began to exert on Russia several years ago and continues to strengthen. Moscow noted that the West does not have the courage to admit the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. There have been opinions in Western countries themselves that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.